This morning IBM acquired StrongLoop - a key player in the nodejs space. Instead of writing a blog post - I went with the new medium - video...
 
So take a peek...
 

MyPOV


Overall a good move by IBM, delivering on the API Economy vision, that was formulated about 2 years ago at the software units global analyst event. BYOL is powerful and will bring a large IaaS platform to nodejs developers courtesy of BlueMix and SoftLayer. What it will mean for the opensource dynamics of nodejs - we will have to see. We have not seen (or missed) larger commitments by IBM to the community. And one more thing to learn about BlueMix - which is growing fast - but needs to educate developers, so hearing that a BlueMix garage offering will be available right away is good news for ecosystem development.